Beldersay, Uzbekistan

Tours, Attractions and Things To Do in Beldersay

The ski resort Beldersay is located 5 km from Chimgan, on the slopes of the Kumbel Mountain (2200 m), on the height of 1600 m. Beldersay is famous for the longest alpine skiing track in Uzbekistan, also there is a cableway with more than 3 km of length.

This place is a real godsend for tourists: a network of entertaining services, mountain woods, rocks, gorges, snowfields, various sanatoria and health resorts, excursion complexes.

Beldersay heads in the peak of the Big Chimgan Mountain. In the middle current of the mountain stream there is the large valley, where you can see a lot of tourist tents in the summer. There is the route through this valley, running from the Urta Kumbel Pass (1850 m) to Chet Kubmel Pass (1880 m) and then to Kumbel Pass (2550 m). On this route you will see many archa (conifer) forests. From the Beldersay valley you can climb the Urta Kumbel Pass, the slope of which leads to the Marble River. This Marble River is the favorite place of tourists. There are local attractions as petrified seashells downstream, being evidences that there was an ocean long ago. A little bit lower the Marble river forms the 15-meter high waterfall.

In upper reaches of the Beldersay gorge you can see the entire “picture gallery”: rock paintings of ancient hunters. There are scenes of hunting on ibexes, and also paintings of domesticated animals, cats and dogs. Advantages of mountain area are estimated first of all by specific peculiarities of the climate, beauty and diversity of nature, presence of healing mineral sources, monuments of nature and history.

Visiting Beldersay, you will appreciate the contrast of climate conditions and vegetation, wonderful landscapes of mountain valleys, slopes, snowy peaks, narrow mountain routes, loud waterfalls and mountain streams, blue lakes, beautiful mountain villages with its ancient distinctive national traditions. Here survived many interesting relics of ancient history as petroglyphs and barrows, fortresses, tracks of settlements of primitive people, remains of mines and melting furnaces, ancient period pieces, traces of dinosaurs and etc. Also tourists are keen on ethnographic specific of mountain people, peculiarity of some kishlaks and auls (local villages).

Here you will have a “sea tan" at the height of winter and a lot of unforgettable impressions and memories about indescribable delight of first-class skiing and snowboarding on alpine tracks and virgin slopes, and the wish to come back here again and again.